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To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Status of patch? 
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 05:46:53 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> i'm about to do a 'make world' and remake my kernel too, i was wondering
> if and what has been done to the kernel to fix the 'f00f' bug?
> 
> i don't want to rebuild everything if there has been no fix for the 'f00f'
> bug.

Even if there were a fix for the F00F bug in the tree, which there
isn't yet, it would have absolutely nothing to do with your make world.

This change, when it's made, will be in the kernel and entirely
separate from the world build.

> what kind of performance impact are we talking about with the fix?

Hopefully negligible enough to be unmeasurable.

					Jordan